Re: Backup?

>>>>> "BTJ" == Bjørn T Johansen <Bj> writes:

BTJ> Should one use pg_dumpall to backup the database or is it more

yes, or pg_dump specific databases.

BTJ> practical to just copy the data directory?

this would do you no good, since the files are not necessarily in a
consistent state when you copy many of them. ie, the copy is
non-atomic, and there is no guarantee that all data is flushed to
disk.

i don't even do a file system dump of my PG data partition because of
this.

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